Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

It’s core is a very powerful and flexible ticket tracker, but it includes all of the important project management features you want and need, milestones, time tracking, wikis, file repository, even discussion boards, and it connects with version control repositories. I think it knocks Basecamp right out of the water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Last month, when I had my horrible computer crash, I lost one or two documents and a few emails. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. And, Google documents allows you export and import pretty easily without too much reformating hell. I'm not complaining.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

But letting multiple people interact with the same document, form, whiteboard or piece of content is still incredibly hard. When you open a document in Google Docs, you can see several profile pictures in the top right corner. It tells you who is viewing a document right now.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 23, 2010

Integration : I think that the ability to pull in a google document, slides, notes, and so on really adds to the value of the tool – it also separates it from many of the other tweet-pooling tools out there. Or, for use in campaigns, either for those wanting to track a campaign or as part of the public-facing campaign map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. This way, people can comment on or start a discussion about a certain item directly within the document – both asynchronously or in real-time.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

When I was seed-stage fundraising, I liked to keep an investor wish-list on a Google doc. This is where you keep track of each investor that you’ve approached as well as those that you would like to approach. This document should not only keep track of your status with each one, but also who you have in common with each person.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2022

Probably the easiest way to share a file is to just attach a document to an email, or to a Slack or other instant message. If you’re sharing traditional documents that way, you could also quickly find yourself playing the “who has the most current version” game. But either way invites trouble on several fronts.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. Well, maybe the student didn’t delete the whole roll sheet – maybe it just got moved into the document header. So I started using collaborative Google documents. If you share a document, someone may corrupt it.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. Salesforce helps manage PT's contacts, work flow, fellows and mentors tracking, magazine subscriptions, opportunities, and donations. In order to manage PT's events and track attendance, wufoo.com and Facebook are used.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2009

Whether I'm in a remote office, on the road, working from home, or just sitting down the hall, sharing documents and using other collaborative tools online saves time, money, and the environment. Collaborating online also means that there's less need to print out those shared documents.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Early in December, Matthew Miller of ZDnet did a good comprehensive piece comparing some major office apps, including DataViz’s Documents To Go , Kingsoft Office , OfficeSuite Pro , Polaris Office comes from Infraware , Quickoffice Pro , and ThinkFree Office. Impressive as Documents To Go is, I was also interested to see what the $0.99

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Be prepared to spend some time negotiating terms (use Track Changes in Word for this purpose). document your work (for yourself, and the client): configurations/settings, inventories, assessments, options, recommendations, decisions, plans, budgets, meeting minutes. - get a good time tracking system.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

The app tracks your progress and the distance you cover while walking, running, or biking. If you are walking home in a potentially unsafe area you can allow a friend to track your location as you walk and alert them when you arrive at your destination. First Aid by American Red Cross - Google Play. Charity Miles.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

The app tracks your progress and the distance you cover while walking, running, or biking. If you are walking home in a potentially unsafe area you can allow a friend to track your location as you walk and alert them when you arrive at your destination. They have and initial $1,000,000 sponsorship pool from corporate sponsors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Many industries rely on cloud-based document platforms like Google Docs for sharing and collaboration, but while copywriters and sales folks probably find the standard office suite sufficient, that’s not necessarily the case for scientists whose disciplines demand special documentation and formatting.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2010

It has its own Google Doc.) The idea isn't to start something totally new, but rather to continue doing what we do daily -- and keep track of it, so we can do it better as we go along. It's necessary to have a place to document and track the evaluation of our experiments. What makes it official? Trust your instincts.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

and/or tagging them in comments in your project management tool or shared document. Discover why communication tools are important to include for effective project management Google Products Shared Google Sheets and Docs work well to facilitate asynchronous work and communication at a low cost.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. Working with documents is very nearly the last frontier in which computers are still superior to mobile devices. It is free for a version that just views documents.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Qui - for clients that are larger, we set up media citation reports (like a word doc with titles and links and relevant info about the mentions and how they should respond). Think like a rocket scientist, document or journal your learnings. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly. How much time is spent listening?

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Dropbox also tracks versions of documents across the team. Dropbox sits nicely between formal, full featured project communications tools such as Basecamp (which we also use), Central Desktop , or Google Apps and Docs. Documentation Just recently I started using ScreenSteps from Blue Mango Learning Systems.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

It’s quite similar to Microsoft 365 and can open and edit Office documents — except it’s completely free. WPS has some handy features of its own: for example, Writer allows you to keep multiple documents open in browser-esque tabs. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by all of the stuff you need to do, Todoist can help you keep track.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. is a URL shortener that allows you to track your links across social media as well as customize the shortened link. Epic Change used four planning tools, but much of the work was really in just two: a private Facebook group and Google Docs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

Otherwise easy to lose track of where you've documented what in an internal wiki davidLeeking give all staff access, make it easy, say you want their contributions Seth Schneider Prepopulate the wiki with documents/information that people inherently need to access. Wikis aren't intuitive EricaG Categories & crossreferencing.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 7, 2024

These profiles help you track changes in your data, set rules to make sure the data is correct, and show you summary statistics in an easy way. This is handy for understanding your data at a glance and tracking how it changes over time. Data tracking : With whylogs, you can track changes in your data over time.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Basecamp is a project space where everyone associated with a project can post updates, set and track deadlines and milestones, and even upload files associated with the project. I've lost hours of work because two people were unknowingly working on different versions of the same document.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. Now let’s look at Excel , which a lot of nonprofits initially use to track their data. Nonprofits can use this software to track fundraising campaign progress or assign roles within a larger project.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. The basic protocols and roles of successful camps were documented in real time and shared in the cloud.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Get a legal pad and a pen or pull up a Google Doc or a Word Doc. Your plan is a fluid document that can be changed as the situation or needs change. Then set quarterly goals and monthly goals to keep you on track. And start writing. How much money do you need to raise? What strategies do you have in mind?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

From a GreenTech perspective, we mean something specific: a succession of online sessions over time that allow people to communicate and work together on long-term or shared projects, often by developing common work-plans, documents, presentations, meeting notes, and other work products that all participants can use whenever and wherever they want.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. The basic protocols and roles of successful camps were documented in real time and shared in the cloud.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Time tracking doesn’t have to be fancy. You can use pencil and paper, an Excel document, or an online tool like Clockify which lets you click ‘Start’ and ‘Stop’ every time you begin or end an activity. You’ll be able to identify and eliminate unproductive tasks that are sucking your time.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

G Suite is Google’s collection of business apps like Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive. As you can all work on projects at once with Google Docs, and easily share information through the various apps, it will become easier than ever to work efficiently as a team. Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms. What is G Suite?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It is impossible to track the nuances of all of those relationships without a little extra help from your CRM. With the personal email to notes feature, fundraisers can easily document their email conversations with donors. Development teams need to know how the relationship with each donor has evolved over the years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

" Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context. NpTech Google Talk Google Presentations: Tell a Story Together: Network Presentations lets us know about a relatively new feature in Google documents called Google Presentations. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Find what really matters to you online, and keep track of it without driving yourself crazy. Is your email, google docs or hard drive filled with "virtual piles" of information or ???drafts??? that haven't been processed? Are you afraid to delete email or old files because you're afraid you might just need it someday?Are

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